116 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND. [ART. XIV

Surveyor of Worcester County shall run and locate the line from
Meadow Bridge to the Potomac River, previous to the adoption or rejec-
tion of this Constitution, and at the expense of said petitioners-
Sec. 4. At the first general election held under this Constitution
the qualified voters of said new County shall be entitled to elect a
Senator and two Delegates to the General Assembly, and all such County
or other officers as this Constitution may authorize, or require to be
elected by other Counties of the State; a notice of such election shall be
given by the sheriffs of Worcester and Somerset Counties in the manner
now prescribed by Law; and in case said new County shall be estab-
lished, as aforesaid, then the Counties of Somerset and Worcester shall
be entitled to elect but two Delegates each to the General Assembly.

Sec. 5. The County of Wicomico, if formed according to the pro-
visions of this Constitution, shall be embraced in the First Judicial
Circuit, and the times for holding the Courts therein shall be fixed, and
determined by the General Assembly.

Sec. 6. The General Assembly shall pass all such Laws as may be
necessary more fully to carry into effect the provisions of this Article.

ARTICLE XIV.

AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION.

Section 1. The General Assembly may propose Amendments to this
Constitution; provided that each Amendment shall be embraced in a
separate Bill, embodying the Article or Section, as the same will stand
when amended and passed by three-fifths of all the members elected to
each of the two Houses, by yeas and nays, to be entered on the Journals
with the proposed Amendment. The Bill or Bills proposing amend-
ment or amendments shall be published by order of the Governor, in at
least two newspapers'in each County, where so many may be published,
and where not more than one may be published, then in that newspaper,
and in three newspapers published in the City of Baltimore, one of
which shall be in the German language, once a week for at least three
months preceding the next ensuing general election, at which the 'pro-
posed amendment or amendments shall be submitted, in a form to be
prescribed by the General Assembly, to the qualified voters of the State
for adoption or rejection. The votes cast for and against said proposed
amendment or amendments, severally, shall be returned to the Governor,
in the manner prescribed in other cases, and if it shall appear to the
Governor that a majority of the votes cast at said election on said
amendment or amendments, severally, were cast in favor thereof, the
Governor shall, by his proclamation, declare the said amendment or
umendments having received said majority of votes, to have been adopted
by the people of Maryland as part of the Constitution thereof, and
thenceforth said amendment of amendments shall be part of the said
Constitution. When two or more amendments shall be submitted in